In the English community we prize education. We want our kids to go to school, stay in school, and do whatever. We don't have to have dinner tonight if it will help pay for our kids to stay in school and have their supplies.
We also treat our students more individually. Not every student learns at the same rate. Frankly, in my own philosophy, if young people graduate at 16 or at 17, there's no effect on their life. The important thing is to graduate, to have the access to post-secondary, and to have access to a good job. There's a different philosophy within our community, and we see that. It's a social phenomenon more than it is something special that we do. It's a support network.
As I said earlier, our schools really are at the centre of our communities. The idea of the school down the street does not exist in the anglophone community. We don’t really have schools down the street. So our schools have to provide a lot more services than francophone schools perhaps do.
There’s no big secret or magic wand involved.